An attorney with an unblemished 30-year record was censured following a random audit that revealed recordkeeping deficiencies and the impermissible use of a firm name or letterhead, despite his contention that he had ceased practicing law two years earlier.

Andrew Giles Freda was first declared ineligible to practice law on Aug. 28, 2017, for failure to pay the annual assessment for the New Jersey Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection, according to the New Jersey Disciplinary Review Board’s decision. Although Freda subsequently satisfied that matter and was reinstated, failure to complete mandatory continuing legal education requirements and another instance of failure to pay his assessment to the NJLFCP resulted, again, in ineligibility to practice law. According to the DRB decision, both matters remain unresolved and Freda remains ineligible.